Updates To Qualification Criteria For Registration With The SSSC

By SSSC6th February 2007News Scotland

The Scottish Social Services Council (SSSC), the organisation established to set up a register of key groups of people who work in social services in Scotland, has extended the list of qualifications it recognises and accepts for the purposes of registration.

Qualification requirements are set as part of the eligibility criteria for registration to help ensure the competence and professionalism of the workforce.

Further qualifications have been recognised for workers in adult day care services, residential child care services, care home services for adults, day care of children services and housing support services.

Applicants for registration who do not hold the required qualifications may, if they meet all other eligibility criteria eg evidence of ‘good character’, be granted registration subject to the condition that they achieve the required qualifications within a specified period – normally their first three years of registration.

Further information about the groups that have been set for registration to date and updated qualification lists are available on the website – www.sssc.uk.com. Hard copies of the qualification lists can also be requested by telephoning 0845 60 30 891.

The following qualifications have been added to lists previously agreed by the Council:

Phase one managers of care home services for adults

Diploma in Domiciliary Care Management plus any award in management that is certificated at or above SCQF level 8 (minimum 60 credits)
SVQ level 4 in Health and Social Care etc plus The Diploma in Public Administration (as one of the management awards)

Phase one managers of adult day care services

Diploma in Domiciliary Care Management plus any award in management that is certificated at or above SCQF level 8 (minimum 60 credits)
SVQ level 4 in Health and Social Care etc plus The Diploma in Public Administration (as one of the management awards)

Phase one residential child care workers

S/NVQ level 3 in Care: Supported Living along with either an HNC Social Care or another form of certificated knowledge from the already specified list ie any other qualification which provides evidence satisfactory to the Council of an individual’s academic achievement equivalent to or above SCQF level 7 with a minimum of 96 academic credits etc

Phase two supervisors in care home services for adults

Diploma in the Training and Further Education of Mentally Handicapped Adults plus an additional supervisory or management qualification with a minimum of 15 academic credits at SCQF level 7 or above
Diploma in Domiciliary Care Management plus an additional supervisory or management qualification with a minimum of 15 academic credits at SCQF level 7 or above

Phase two practitioners in care home services for adults

Diploma in the Training and Further Education of Mentally Handicapped Adults
Diploma in Domiciliary Care Management

Phase two support worker in care home services for adults

Diploma in the Training and Further Education of Mentally Handicapped Adults

Phase two managers in housing support services

Diploma in Domiciliary Care Management plus any award in management that is certificated at or above SCQF level 8 (minimum 60 credits)
SVQ level 4 in Health and Social Care etc plus The Diploma in Public Administration (as one of the management awards)

Phase two workers in housing support services

Diploma in the Training and Further Education of Mentally Handicapped Adults
HNC Supporting Learning Needs
HND Supporting Learning Needs

Phase two supervisors in housing support services

Diploma in the Training and Further Education of Mentally Handicapped Adults plus an additional supervisory or management qualification with a minimum of 15 academic credits at SCQF level 7 or above
Diploma in Domiciliary Care Management plus an additional supervisory or management qualification with a minimum of 15 academic credits at SCQF level 7 or above

Phase two support workers in day care of children services